The period covered by the Lampeter Corpus, 1640 to 1740, marks a crucial period in English history as well as in the elaboration of English as a multi-purpose language. The texts selected for the corpus reflect both the standardisation process of English and historical developments between the outbreak of the Civil War and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In order to meet the needs of linguists and historians alike, the Lampeter project has made an effort to create a balanced corpus rather than a randomly chosen archive or collection. A balanced corpus, then, is characterised by a number of transparent sampling criteria. The ones that have served as guidelines for the compilation of the Lampeter Corpus are listed below:
ScopeTracts and pamphlets published in the century between 1640 and 1740, all of them available in the Founders' Library at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
Setup
120 different texts, amounting to c. 1.1 million words.
Sampling criteria
No intermediary modern editions of the texts were used.
Text encoding
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